Sadness flies away on the wings of time.)
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/comte_de_lautreamont.html#iTrHAVoSM0yQ7D1D.99
The remedy (or psychotherapy) against sadness caused by the world's misery is to do something about it.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy